Posted by Erwin Moller on 01/17/07 13:31

balakrishnan.dinesh@gmail.com wrote:

> hi Erwin
>
> I have change the session_lifetime in php.ini file which you
> have said. But still the session files remains same, Another thing i
> have noticed is, If give value as 5, then only two file are present in
> the session folder and if i give the value as 30, some 10 or 15 file
> are present in the session folder.at the sametime after the time
> reached which as fixed as value for session lifetime, nothing is
> happening, everythings remains same i.e, no session file are getting
> deleted.
>
> Rgrds
> Dinesh...

Hi,

It is perfectly possible you have 30 old sessionfiles in your directory.
When using the settings in my example for gc.* they will only be garbage
collected once in thousand times.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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